"when you're setting up the speaker, walking around on the carpet you can build up a static electricity charge yourself, and if you touch the frame of the driver it can induce a current into the crossover network and cause some charging. It might be useful for us to ship the speakers with a shorting plug or cable across the terminals to drain that down"

i can see how it might be possible to put some "charge" into the capacitors with static electricity, but wouldn't all that charge get blown out on the first discharge of the caps, which occurs within a fraction of a second of applying power?

It's a shame, as one can clearly hear the various "tells" upon transitioning into la-la land,..ie, his sentence structuring, pausing and searching for words/descriptors to present his "findings".

It's a shame really. I've met/interacted with the guys from Wilson, and they seemed great. Never met David, however those I did have the pleasure of meeting were normal and had fun poking fun at the audio fringe and the BS claims that accompany that group. If you've not seen the cabinets in person, and touched them and given them the knuckle rap test, they truly are amazing pieces of work. The synthetic resin material used is phenomenally inert.

It's a shame, as one can clearly hear the various "tells" upon transitioning into la-la land,..ie, his sentence structuring, pausing and searching for words/descriptors to present his "findings".

It's a shame really. I've met/interacted with the guys from Wilson, and they seemed great. Never met David, however those I did have the pleasure of meeting were normal and had fun poking fun at the audio fringe and the BS claims that accompany that group. If you've not seen the cabinets in person, and touched them and given them the knuckle rap test, they truly are amazing pieces of work. The synthetic resin material used is phenomenally inert.

Some of the ideas are fundamentally strong and easily measurable. Cable settling however??????????????????

i can see how it might be possible to put some "charge" into the capacitors with static electricity, but wouldn't all that charge get blown out on the first discharge of the caps, which occurs within a fraction of a second of applying power?

That whole statement by Mr Wilson has me a little perplexed. If you can discharge electricity into the drivers frame and have it reach the crossover, wouldn't touching the frame while the speaker is playing shock you?

That whole statement by Mr Wilson has me a little perplexed. If you can discharge electricity into the drivers frame and have it reach the crossover, wouldn't touching the frame while the speaker is playing shock you?

You would only get shocked if there is enough potential between the frame and whatever else you are touching. If you isolate yourself from other paths-you can stick your finger in the wall socket and not get shocked. Electricity has to have a path to flow-or nothing happens.

But more to the point, except for a very few old vintage speakers, I have never seen a modern loudspeaker driver that has one of the input terminals attached to the frame. now maybe theirs are different-I have no idea.

But if one of the input terminals is not attached to the frame-touching the frame will simply not do anything like "discharging into the crossover".

And I wonder how many of their typical customers go up and touch the frames of the drivers. I would imagine they would want to keep people and "poking fingers" away from those very expensive loudspeakers.